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Timetable: MCRR - Caro Branch - Vassar to Owendale
This was a branch line northeast from the MC Detroit to Bay City line. Station hours are from 1947.
Station | MP from Vassar | Notes |
Vassr | 0.0 | DN P32 |
Caro Junction | 0.4 | D J |
Bank Sand | ||
Watrousville | 5.4 | P9 |
Ross's Crossing | 7.0 | |
Wahjamega | 9.4 | P19 |
Caro xDBC&W | 13.0 | D X P19 EL |
Atwood | ||
Purdy | ||
Hutchinson | ||
Colling | 22.1 | |
Duro | ||
Ashmore | ||
Bach | 28.1 | |
Patton | ||
Owendale | J | |
Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Engine house | EL=Elevator | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Lift bridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swing bridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard
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Image info: A timetable from the Official Guide in 1910 of the Michigan Central's Caro Branch from Vassar to Owendale via Caro. The branch had four trains each way per day, though only two went west of Caro to Owendale.
Notes
Time Line
1887. The MC is laying steel rails on the Caro branch, and the road bed is to be reballasted. An official has predicted the extension of the line to Cass City within a year. [PHTH-1887-0717
Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI